UDFSMKJR - BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing and Journalism

BA Fashion Marketing and Journalism focuses on developing professional skills appropriate for students seeking to gain a career in journalism, marketing and PR with a specific focus on fashion.
The teaching and learning strategy seeks to engage, enthuse and support students in their learning, using blended learning, combining learning undertaken in face-to-face sessions with learning opportunities created online. Full use is made of the virtual learning environment and of media facilities.
Teaching includes workshops, simulations, screenings, field trips, lectures and seminar discussions. Embedded into the course are three activity weeks – an enhancement week and two news weeks. During these weeks, extra-curricular activities involving guest speakers from fashion business and also career development personnel, provide students with career development support. A work experience module is compulsory.
External learning opportunities include making use of the museums and other collections , press fashion shows, trips to factories, and guided tours.
This is the only course with this title in London, and graduates have achieved success in marketing and fashion areas.

The overall aim of the BA Fashion Marketing and Journalism course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of both fashion marketing and journalism theories and practices.

The aims take account of QAA statements on Business and Management courses and on Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies.

The course aims to teach students:

● A broad understanding of marketing with particular focus on how the fashion industry is marketed, with both an academic and practitioner perspective of the various disciplines relevant to fashion marketing;
● The history and ideas important to understanding the practice of journalism in the UK today, as well as globally, so that they have an analytical framework with which to grasp their role within the industry;
● the role and significance fashion marketing plays in contemporary society and the process of consumer consumption;
● independent and critical thinking skills so that they can think independently, select appropriate approaches and solve problems relevant to fashion marketing and journalism
● writing skills so that they can write accurately and fluently in a variety of formats, to a variety of audiences (including academic essays, news items, headlines, features, reviews, reports, commentaries, blogs, tweets, interviews, profiles, investigations, critiques, comments, columns, nibs, campaigns and any other formats chosen – to deadline and to length);
● to develop students’ own understanding of their work so that they can produce it and target it to a range of media audiences, specialist and non-specialist;
● To develop students’ social skills so that they can interview primary sources face to face, over the phone, via email and social media and so that they can pitch ideas and presentations to possible employers;
● To foster students’ independence as learners and practitioners, especially through individual projects;
● To foster collaboration as learners and practitioners, especially through group work and simulations;
● To offer the opportunity for monitored work placements, extension of knowledge skills (shorthand), and publication within and outside the course website;
● to offer them the chance to progress towards more specialised accredited learning.

On completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Know and understand how the fashion marketing industry works, with both an academic and practitioner perspective of the various disciplines relevant to fashion marketing, as well as understanding the role and significance fashion marketing plays in contemporary society and the process of consumer consumption;
2. Understand the social, political and ethical dimensions within which the fashion industry operates;
3. Understand the social, political and ethical dimensions within which journalism operates;
4. Devise and sustain arguments, taking account of views other than their own, and to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of journalism and/or marketing;
5. Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences, through different media;
6. Describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research and practice in marketing and/or journalism, recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge;
7. Apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects, jointly and singly;
8. Exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts, so that professional skills can be used within appropriate legal and ethical frameworks;
9. Be able to progress towards more specialised accredited learning.

Please check the lastest Course Handbook for further information.

Subject Benchmark Statement:

Please check the lastest Course Handbook for further information.Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies [Dec-2019]

Guidance at:

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The above latest subject benchmark statement and general guidance available are used in the design, delivery and review of the course and in facilitating the knowledge and skills normally expected of a typical course graduate.

The BA Fashion Marketing and Journalism draws upon various assessment methods, which include: examinations to facilitate learning and the integration of knowledge; structured coursework for example, the use of problem solving case studies, oral presentations, literature based assignments including essays and reports; portfolio work across several media and at Level 6 a research project.

In all modules, feedback is given in a week for the first assignment and thereafter within two weeks. Formative assessment is given both electronically and face to face. Summative assessment is given electronically.

Regular course committees inform the shaping of assessment timing. Regular input from industry shapes the assignments themselves – for example, in the development of social media content.
Since at least 50 percent of assessment is on practical tasks, a coaching model ensures that students are assisted in drafting and shaping work.

A work placement module is compulsory in the second year (15 credits). Additionally, news weeks and news days are simulations of work, or work experience.
The course includes information, training and advice on employability, job applications, CVs and finances. Simulation of the work environment also includes job applications and interviews.

All core modules

Within each of the journalism modules, reflective elements are evident. In most cases, this is measured by an online journal on which students record their class contribution, taking account of their participation, reading, presentations, interrelations with others and extra-curricular work. This forms part of the assessment and is moderated by tutors.
News days and news weeks simulate the work environment and operate on a formative, coaching model.
In addition, assessment components may be used to facilitate reflective learning, for example students may be asked, as part of the assessment process, to reflect on their learning from working in a group or reflect on their learning from project research.
Students build up a portfolio of work via blogs and the course website, which can promote their job prospects.

BA Fashion Marketing and Journalism graduates can work across the convergent media fields of print, online, audio and video, within news organisations and specialist fashion magazines and websites, as well as in corporate and public sector communications. Graduates work in social media for the BBC, for fashion organisations, in advertising and PR, and have also gone on to take masters’ degrees.

During this degree, you’ll gain the qualifications and skills you need for a range of roles in fashion journalism, newspapers and magazines (both print and online), including careers as a fashion critic, fashion reporter and fashion writer.

In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have:

• a minimum of grades BBC in three A levels (or a minimum of 112 UCAS points from an equivalent Level 3 qualification, eg BTEC National, OCR Diploma or Advanced Diploma)
• GCSE English at grade C/grade 4 or above (or equivalent)

If you do not have traditional qualifications or cannot meet the entry requirements for this undergraduate degree, you may still be able to gain entry by completing the Media and Communications Extended Degree.

Applicants with relevant professional qualifications or extensive professional experience will also be considered on a case by case basis.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in the English language. Applicants who require a Tier 4 student visa may need to provide a Secure English Language Test (SELT) such as Academic IELTS. For more information about English qualifications please see our English language requirements.